In the news

Sadly, even high res video recordings haven’t usually been enough to get people fired, let alone tried and convicted.

fuckface keunssberg out here shilling for her boss again.

full cuntext: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56819137

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/comments/mv1sli/chauvin_sentencing_and_beyond_answering_your/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body

I found this thread useful in highlighting and explaining the next stage of Chauvin’s criminal proceedings.

What a cunt

What a cunt

There are 3 of them there.

I am particularly enjoying classic Dom turning on his old master

Some kids have all the fun. Not fair

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-56858188

Amazing!

Getting pissed with Sixth Formers on a school trip? Outrageous behaviour!

(Ah, Kitzbuhel!...)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/23/court-clears-39-post-office-staff-convicted-due-to-corrupt-data

Finally... Hopefully the rest to follow

Well done to the campaigners and to Private Eye, which has been reporting on this for years.

TIL about a campaign for Harry’s Law, reducing the use of physical restraints on children in the UK, especially if they have special needs.

Important campaign. The testimony from the mum is hard to watch tho. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09f6tr5

Lmao. I was taught by him when he was in state schools still.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/­2021/apr/23/jury-acquits-extinction-rebe­llion-protesters-despite-no-defence-in-l­aw

“I believe if I don’t do whatever I can to protect our Earth, to protect life on this Earth, to stop the death and injury that is and will be happening, I’m committing a crime, a really serious crime, and I’m willing to break a window, to paint a message on a wall, I’m willing to break the glass on that emergency button, even if some say that’s a crime."

“Because this is a much bigger crime and I’m trying to stop that crime, I’m trying to protect life in the only way I feel I can.”

And

“This is such a significant victory for the consciousness of the British people when it comes to the huge, immediate threat of climate change and the absolute failure of our government to do anything meaningful about it.”

Great to see them acquitted

I especially like the judge instructed the jury that there is no defence in law for what they did.
Still acquited them.

^ is it the case that legal precedent now becomes a defence for others?

One woman pleaded guilty due to childcare issues... Glad to see jury let the others go.

Jury nullification doesn't set legal precedent. It might lead to judicial findings/decisions that create precedent, but it isn't a legal ruling.

It might influence future juries and enough juries doing the same can have a de facto effect on the law because prosecutors change their decisions about what cases to pursue and how to go about it.

So the Johnson sleaze thing.

Is the guess that Dyson is being promised a peerage and that’s why he moved his status back to the uk, and that he also has directly gifted Johnson the cash to pay for the refurbishment thing. So all of these threads are actually the same thing and it’s just a cash for peerage shitstorm.

Juries have a history of quirky decision making - there was a similar one in a different criminal damage case where some protestors smashed up a military aeroplane (I think) that was going to be used to massacre civilians somewhere.

There are also nasty cases where certain jurors have alleged afterwards that the decision was reached based on the defendants' ethnicity or a general dislike that they took to them.

^ R v Kronlid and others is the case I was referring to, but it seems to have happened fairly frequently, e.g. with USAAF planes bound for Iraq and a factory that made parts for Israeli fighter jets too.

Did the texts ever get published as promised? I guess they have, but aren't particularly newsworthy

So Johnson was happier to see 'bodies pile high' than have a lockdown to prevent it. Nadine Dorries is out front calling it a lie, which we can take as absolute confirmation that it's true.

The one thing in common for all the worst hit countries - US, UK, Brazil, India - is far right populist leaders who don't give a shit about the little people and who refused to take it seriously. Hundreds of thousands of bodies and the one potential threat to Johnson seems to be who paid for his wallpaper.

Robert Peston says the bodies quote is true

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-04-26/robert-peston-boris-johnson-did-make-bodies-pile-high-in-their-thousands-comment